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Amalia Ribi Forclaz

Assistant Professor, International History

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Assistant Professor, International History

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After having gained a DPhil in Modern History from Lincoln College, Oxford, Amalia Ribi Forclaz joined the Graduate Institute as Ambizione Research Fellow for three years, before becoming Assistant Professor. Her areas of expertise include 19th and 20th century internationalism, global history of agriculture and rural development, and the history of slavery and its abolition. Amalia Ribi Forclaz’s most recent work, entitled Humanitarian Imperialism. The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880-1940, has been published by Oxford University Press.

‘Shaping the Future of Farming: The International Labour Organization and Agricultural Education in the Interwar Years’, Special Issue, Agricultural Review, December 2017.

‘Agriculture, American Expertise, and the Quest for Global Data: Leon Estabrook and the First World Agricultural Census of 1930, Journal of Global History, 11,1 (2016), 44-65.

‘A New Target for International Social Reform. The International Labour Organisation and Working and Living Conditions in Agriculture in the Interwar Years’, Journal of Contemporary European History 20,3 (2011), 307-329.

‘From Reconstruction to Development: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Conceptualizations of Rural Welfare, 1945-1950 ’, International History Review, [forthcoming 2018]

Edited Special Issues

‘Introduction: Confronting a Hungry World: The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in a Historical Perspective, Special Issue of the International History Review, [forthcoming 2018] (co-authored with Corinne Pernet )

‘Introduction: Transnational Networks in Agriculture, Food, and Health’, Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary European History, 20,3 (2011), 247-277 (co-authored with Cornelia Knab).

Book chapters

‘‘The Breath of New Life”? British Anti-Slavery Activism and the League of Nations’, in D. Laqua (ed.), Internationalism Reconfigured: Transnational Ideas and Movements between the World Wars (London, 2011).

‘Guardians of the Countryside: The Associated Countrywomen of the World ACWW and the Conceptualization of Rural Internationalism in the Interwar Years’, in Ribi Forclaz and Van de Grift (eds.) Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe (London 2017).

Activities

SNSF Junior research scholarship, 2004

Berrow Foundation Scholarship, Lincoln College Oxford, 2004-2008

Membro Scientifico, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 2005-2006

Beit Scholarship in Imperial and Commonwealth History, Oxford 2009

Research Fellowship of the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2009-2010